#keils

This is the view back up the Keils peninsula with the Sound of Jura on the left. The islands of Jura and Scarba are visible. There was once a ferry to Jura from this peninsula.

This is the view from the southern tip of the peninsula, with only a few skerries between here and Ireland about 75 miles away.

We’ve had a stunning weekend in Argyll, and this was from a walk out yesterday evening after…

Dear Anneliese!

I take it that I can still call you that? What is the matter with you? You disappear without a trace, are silent in every language, letters go unanswered, one cannot even learn your address from your parents and one has to go through the police when one wants to know where you're hiding. I just don't get it, the devil only knows! Has our friendship become so superficial that you don't have even a little bit of confidence in me?

I came to a car show in Berlin with the Keils, not because the show interested me, but rather because of you, but unfortunately I didn't once get to meet you. Although your landlady sent me to a family Knop on Hermannstr., but in the entire house, and the read building too, there was nothing to be seen of a family Knop. I'm not sure whether your landlady lied to me or you to her. In any case the day was a failure for me.

I haven't heard anything from you since August 1937, you last card came from the Junghans café, in which you said I would receive news from Leipzig. I haven't received any news from you, but I did get a long letter from your mother in which she told me all sorts of things I just couldn't understand, and she asked me to travel to Leipzig and talk to you. The next day I had already received another card in which your mother wrote that I shouldn't go, as you had already left Leipzig. Then I requested your address from your parents, but have never received any further news. I then repeatedly asked Rosa if she knew anything, but she writes to me just as infrequently as you do.

At the time I was leaving Königssee, you both said to me (I remember it like it was yesterday) "You will soon have forgotten us", and how has it turned out in reality?

So much has changed in 1 1/2 years. I am now working full time at the NSV [Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt] Local Office. The Keils have lived for a year in Zwickau. Ilse's father has also died, so now she is temporarily running the business as heir.

There is yet more to report, though at the moment is my time too short.

I just hope that you will finally let me hear something from you. Until then warm greetings in friendship

                                              Deine Martha                                               Martha

(German text and envelope after the jump)